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Dara Lind

Dara Lind

Senior Correspondent

    Latest articles by Dara Lind

    Politics
    Exclusive: how asylum officers are being told to implement Sessions’s new rulesExclusive: how asylum officers are being told to implement Sessions’s new rules
    Politics

    A leaked memo isn’t the radical change that many human rights advocates feared — at least not yet.

    By Dara Lind
    Politics
    DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s defense of separation of families at the border: it’s not a “policy”DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s defense of separation of families at the border: it’s not a “policy”
    Politics

    Her tweet is accurate in the narrowest sense. But her department is still choosing to separate kids from their parents.

    By Dara Lind
    Politics
    The House is set to debate 2 sweeping immigration bills that don’t address family separationThe House is set to debate 2 sweeping immigration bills that don’t address family separation
    Politics

    The bills would legalize immigrants currently protected under the DACA program — and cut legal family-based immigration.

    By Dara Lind
    Politics
    White House: whoops, actually, Trump supports the House immigration compromiseWhite House: whoops, actually, Trump supports the House immigration compromise
    Politics

    “The President misunderstood the question this morning,” a White House official said. But who really knows.

    By Dylan Scott and Dara Lind
    Politics
    The House GOP says their new bill bans separating families at the border. That’s a lie.The House GOP says their new bill bans separating families at the border. That’s a lie.
    Politics

    The House’s “compromise” immigration bill doesn’t ban family separation — it just allows kids to be detained like adults.

    By Dara Lind
    Politics
    Trump just said he “certainly wouldn’t sign” an immigration bill his White House helped writeTrump just said he “certainly wouldn’t sign” an immigration bill his White House helped write
    Politics

    Trump might have torpedoed a bill that even immigration hardliners in his administration like Stephen Miller were trying to pass.

    By Dara Lind
    Politics
    “Families Belong Together” rallies are protesting the separation of immigrant children from parents“Families Belong Together” rallies are protesting the separation of immigrant children from parents
    Politics

    Splitting families at the border is generating tremendous outrage among Trump’s critics.

    By Dara Lind
    Politics
    Trump might temporarily house immigrant kids taken from parents in “tent cities”Trump might temporarily house immigrant kids taken from parents in “tent cities”
    Politics

    Putting immigrant kids in “tent cities” seems inhumane. Is Trump’s alternative any better?

    By Dara Lind
    The family separation crisis at the US border
    People are dying because of the Trump administration’s immigration policyPeople are dying because of the Trump administration’s immigration policy
    The family separation crisis at the US border

    A suicide in jail and a murder in Mexico: family separation and deportations have a body count.

    By Dara Lind
    Politics
    Jeff Sessions has all but slammed the door on survivors of domestic and gang violenceJeff Sessions has all but slammed the door on survivors of domestic and gang violence
    Politics

    His big new asylum ruling is extremely bad news for parents separated from their children at the border too.

    By Dara Lind